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Astelia spicata Colenso

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Astelia spicata Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 14: 335 (1881 [1882])

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Colenso
Colenso
1881
1882
335
illegitimate, rejected
Moore & Edgar (1970), p. 40, treat this as a rejected speciesMoore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.
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Astelia spicata Colenso
species
Astelia spicata
Type: NEW ZEALAND. North Island. In the forests about Kopua and Norsewood, Colenso. (Lectotype: K [000524878, digital image!], pistillate, designated by Skottsberg, 1934, 81). Moore (1966) regarded the type and other specimens examined to represent very small individuals of either A. hastata or A. microsperma.

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spicata

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Astelia spicata Colenso
Astelia spicata Colenso

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Colenso (1883/1884), p. 340, describes a male plant lacking in his earlier description
typification
Type: NEW ZEALAND. North Island. In the forests about Kopua and Norsewood, Colenso. (Lectotype: K [000524878, digital image!], pistillate, designated by Skottsberg, 1934, 81). Moore (1966) regarded the type and other specimens examined to represent very small individuals of either A. hastata or A. microsperma.

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18 March 2004
6 August 2015
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